Australia's Matthew Mitcham and Grant Nel have won the silver medal in the men's 3m synchronised diving event on day nine.

Mitcham and Nel finished on 403.14 points after their six dives, behind English gold medallists Jack Laugher and Chris Mears, who scored 431.94.

Another English pair, Nick Robinson-Baker and Freddie Woodward, took the bronze medal with 364.41 points.

Mitcham and Nel had led after their round one dive, a back dive with a 2.0 degree of difficulty.

But the English soon took over, and the Australians' fourth round dive - an inward 3 1/2 somersault in the tuck position with a 3.4 degree of difficulty - gained only 66.30 points, leaving the English all but certain of the gold medal.

The result gives Mitcham his second silver medal of the Games, after he came second in the 1m springboard final behind Laugher. Nel took the bronze in that event.